Every grain of sand could have a piece of the whole. However, I think both ideas simply bow to human-centrism and have always struck me (as in the ideas themselves) has being evidence of human conceit. I just don't think we can grasp enough to say one way or another. I don't think we are the final arbiters of of the Omnireality-being-thing, though?

I agree, both sides of that coin shows you delusion. I am not even sure we are supposed to grasp it. I wonder what makes humans that convinced that we can, or should be able, to grasp these ideas?  Is it a cultural/religious thing?  Because to me it really seems like the more we look into it the less human it gets

Well, it was fun while it lasted, but I decided to quit the series(again) a couple of days ago. I was halfway through HOC when I just realized that I really don`t give a fuck about anything and anyone in this series anymore. It is just too much. It really is hard to put my finger on exactly what happened, because I really enjoyed MOI, and the Karsa Orlong story in HOC.

I actually think I would wipe out every human being on the planet. Just to see what happens. Time is on my side right? Just wait around a couple of hundred billion years, maybe travel a bit around in my vast and forever expanding playground. Eventually I will check in on old earth again, and see how the planet is doing without its virus with shoes fucking things up. If nothing more novel than humans has arrived, I guess I will create an Adam and Eve once more, start the human experiment over again, too see if humans will do things differently this time around. I might even program them a bit differently this time, it really depends on what my goal is. If I am in a good mood, like five minutes after my orgasm the size of a supernova, spraying billions of new stars into the expanding void, I might take away the need for humans to be deluded. That would have been interesting. A delusion free human race. We cannot even imagine how that would be like, would we?

Wow, I don`t think I have ever read an author who uses the ketchup effect like Erikson. He just pours gently the first 5-600 pages and then he fucking drowns you in the last 300 pages. Add to that an insane amount of viewpoints, almost like channel switching on TV.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that he may be leaning a bit too much on melancholy? It can be exhausting at times I think.

That being said, I will read on:)  (I just finished MOI by the way)

Are you supposed to read the Ian Esslemont novels after the 10 Erikson books? I hear someone suggest reading them in-between the 1o books....

For example, you read "Night of Knives" after "Midnight Tides". Anyone here know the correct way of dealing with this? I just found out about this co- author.

The plot really thickens in MOI. This is getting very fun and interesting.

So I finished DG the other day and the second half of that book was fantastic. Duiker was a blast to follow around on the chain of dogs:)

Just finished the prologue of MOI and I have a question.